Oakland Industrial Art and Culture

Accompany the Flaneur on a psychogeographical expedition

 We begin around here--Eighth and Wasington

Watch out for a mean gay rooster lurking around here

Frankenfood accident in poultry industry

-- pigeons get found dead

 We suggest our location indirectly

 A gruesome silent movie

Morbidly projected on a wall painted black

 Representing the brand of commodified athletics

 Consumed hereabout

A banal verse in a concrete poem

 A coveted wall on which to signify

 The last green of spring

Clings to the roots of summer

Phantom limbs,
Monochrome tree

 Kiddy Bitch

Street art gold

 Classicism in high voltage industrial design

Dirty old town,

Dirty as we like it to be

Power point presentation

I dig its use of punctuation

 The high end of industrial intelligence

 An eruptive landscape

The unstoppable return of the repressed

 Emergent Silver Skull

 A sudden train passes at a good clip

A few feet past my elbow,

Sensation addict

 It's a Hitchcock world

Palpable frisson just in being alone here

 When Roosevelt came to the land of the hummingbird,
 Here comes old slow poke now

 Welcome to the Port of Oakland

 The Platonic ideal

Shadowy reflection on a cave of glass

 The actual and its double

 We sail toward the double sunset 

An imaginary bay rising in the sky

 Screens behind the illusion

Trainwreck culture

 The FAT LADY?!

Is that even considered politically correct anymore?

The new police bruisers
Always enough funding for police gasoline

So they can stop the sky from being so lovely

 ASK / WHY?

What the police see when they hit Washington

 Close to home again,

Transgender wig salon or something

Speak softly and carry a big schtick

That's my new motto

17 July 2015